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Cake day: September 28th, 2023

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  • Adhd is not ‘loss of control over attention’. It’s an executive function disorder.

    Meditation isn’t ‘getting control over attention’ it’s paying attention to your inner self in order to create a distance between you and your thoughts. It’s more about the realisation that you aren’t your thoughts, feelings, emotions, but that the real you is having them.

    You don’t need to be meditating to control your attention.


  • I literally write down all names in notes. I’m so incredibly bad with name recall that I forget names of people I worked with and known for years. That app is a life saver and I open it a lot.

    I also use the trick to imagine their name as something completely over the top absurd. Which works because the image is so much easier to recall. For example Karen would be then behind the wheel of a Ford Ka running on its back tires. A Ka Run… But this is very difficult to do in the moment.

    Otherwise yeah I can lose names at any moment of anything at any point in time. People, towns, events, brands, objects, concepts… Just gone. My mind went passed it with a 1000 miles a minute and forgot to grab it.






  • Dissociation and distraction by you inner conversation can look the same from the outside. I always thought that I was dissociating, because the descriptions fiit very nicely. Dissociated state is however a trauma response and the onset somewhat predictable, I lack the trauma part. (unless you subscribe to the theory of complex ptsd and adhd, but the same distinction applies nevertheless. The distracted state remains unpredictable)